2. process [ v ] subject to a process or treatment, with the aim of readying for some purpose, improving, or remedying a conditionExamples:"process cheese""process hair""treat the water so it can be drunk""treat the lawn with chemicals""treat an oil spill"

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(Organic Gardening and Farming,...)

One of the most attractive things about avocados is that they do not require processing of any kind .

(Handbook of Federal Aids to Communities. U.S. Dep...)

To be eligible to borrow from a Bank_for_Cooperatives , a cooperative must be an association in which farmers act together in processing and marketing farm products , purchasing farm supplies , or furnishing farm business services , and must meet the requirements set_forth in the Farm_Credit_Act_of_1933 , as amended .

3. process [ n ] a particular course of action intended to achieve a resultsExamples:"the procedure of obtaining a driver's license""it was a process of trial and error"

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(Musical America, LXXXI:5...)

In the process , his native endowments were stretched , strengthened and disciplined to serve their human purpose .

(John R. Sargent, "Where To Aim Your Planning for Bigger...)

Companies of all types have made great advances in production capabilities and efficiencies - in modern equipment and new processes , enlarged R_+_D facilities , faster new product development .

On_the_other_hand , the process of obsoleting an old product and introducing the new one is usually mighty expensive .

Has your company developed selection and training processes that are geared to providing the caliber of salesmen you will need in the next 10 yr. ?

(James Boylan, "Mutinity"...)

North and south , east and west , back_and_forth he sailed in the land-locked bay , plowing furiously forward until land appeared , then turning to repeat the process , day_after_day , week_after_week .

4. process [ v ] perform mathematical and logical operations on (data) according to programmed instructions in order to obtain the required informationExamples:"The results of the elections were still being processed when he gave his acceptance speech"

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(Frank Lorimer, Demographic Information on...)

The first sampling census in the Congo extended over a three-year period , 1955 - 57 ; the results were still being processed in 1959 .

5. process [ n ] a sustained phenomenon or one marked by gradual changes through a series of statesExamples:"events now in process""the process of calcification begins later for boys than for girls"

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(Norman Kent, "The Watercolor Art of Roy M. Mason"...)

As a boy Roy_Mason began the long process of extracting the goodness of the out-of-doors , its tang of weather , its change of seasons , its variable moods .

What I have observed time_and_time_again is a process of integration , integration that begins as abstract design and gradually takes_on recognizable form ; color patterns that are made to weave throughout the whole composition ; and that over_all , amazing control of large washes which is the Mason stylemark .

(Walter H. Buchsbaum, "Advances in Medical Electronics"...)

By combining the talents of a medical_man , Dr._Aterman , a biophysicist , Mr._Berkely , and an electronics expert , Dr._Zworykin , this novel technique has been developed which promises to open broad avenues to understanding life processes .

The medical title of `` Lobar_Ventilation_in_Man '' by Drs._C._J._Martin and A._C._Young , covers a brief paper which is one part of a much larger effort to apply electronics to the study of the respiratory process .

(Gibson Winter, The Suburban Captivity of the...)

If economic integration really shapes congregational life , then evangelism should be a process of extending economic integration .

It was the conclusion of the first phase of a process of tragic recollection , and of refining the recollection , that will last as_long_as there are Jews .

(John F. Hayward, "Mimesis and Symbol in the Arts"...)

Later abstractive and rational processes may indicate errors of judgment in these apprehensions of value , but the apprehensions themselves are the primary stuff of experience .

Whitehead contends that the human way of understanding existence as a unity of interlocking and interdependent processes which constitute each_other and which cause each_other to be and not to be is possible only because the basic form of such an understanding , for all its vagueness and tendency to mistake the detail , is initially given in the way man feels the world .